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...NILE L. ALBRIGHT...
...Uganda, where women in the West Nile district traditionally wear only Eve's fig leaf fore and aft, there is now a brisk import trade in bras and pants, but dresses are still considered slightly immoral. Often U.S. clothes must be altered abroad because they are too big; in pigmy Africa men frequently wear women's coats. There is a fast Uganda trade in tuxedos for weddings and funerals, which are bought used for $1.50 to $3, worn once and then resold...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, Macmillan had been one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Britain's 1956 Suez invasion, which sought to topple Nasser. Now, swallowing his pride, Macmillan made a penitential journey to pay a call on Nasser, posed awkwardly for photographers beside the dictator of the Nile, who grinned...
...first millennium B.C. The empire was shattered. The legacy of cultural greatness from the days of Ramses II was running out. Egypt was slowly overcome by an ennui that made her powerless to stop the conquering hordes of Libyans, Ethiopians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, who swept into the Nile Valley like a rampaging flood. But foreign domination for a time pumped new vigor into Egypt's tired blood. Sculptors gradually began to escape from the sterility of pyramid sculpture and, subjected to freshening outside influences, introduced a new vitality and plasticity into their own work that suggested...
Travelers who have seen such strikingly dissimilar buildings as Cairo's Nile Hilton hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...